BACKGROUND Leishmaniasis is important vector-borne parasitic disease worldwide, caused by the genus Leishmania. The objective of the current study was to identify genetic polymorphism in L. major, one of the species causing cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), isolated from southeastern Iran, using Permissively Primed Intergenic Polymorphic-Polymerase Chain Reaction (PPIP-PCR) method. METHODS Overal...

I read with interest the recent publication(1) on this subject. Since Kalawati Saran Childrens Hospital is a sentinel centre for surveillance of Poliomyelitis, covering the states of Delhi, UP, MP and HP, the figures are reliable and informative. It is heartening to note that the occurrence of poliomyelitis in these states has reduced to 369 cases in 1996 from 1062 cases in 1994. Does this figu...

Plant proteins, after extraction from sources such as pea can be used functional ingredients in emulsions and gels. However, the protein fractionation route affects functionality. We investigated differences rheological properties of emulsion-filled gel (EFGs) structured by isolate obtained using either isoelectric precipitation (PPIp) or diafiltration (PPId), at varying pH oil content. PPIp PP...

background: leishmaniasis is important vector-borne parasitic disease worldwide, caused by the genus leishmania . the objective of the current study was to identify genetic polymorphism in l. major , one of the species causing cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl), isolated from southeastern iran, using permissively primed intergenic polymorphic-polymerase chain reaction (ppip-pcr) method. methods: over...

OBJECTIVE To identify the most common avoidable factors, missed opportunities and substandard care in perinatal care in South Africa. SETTING Seventy-three state hospitals throughout South Africa representing metropolitan areas, cities and towns, and rural areas. METHOD Users of the Perinatal Problem Identification Programme (PPIP) amalgamated their data to provide descriptive information o...

BACKGROUND Audit and feedback is an established strategy for improving maternal, neonatal and child health. The Perinatal Problem Identification Programme (PPIP), implemented in South African public hospitals in the late 1990s, measures perinatal mortality rates and identifies avoidable factors associated with each death. The aim of this study was to elucidate the processes involved in the impl...

Abstract Public-Private Innovation Partnerships (PPIPs) are increasingly used as a tool for addressing ‘wicked’ public sector challenges. ‘Innovation’ is, however, frequently treated ‘magic’ concept: unreflexively, taken to be axiomatically ‘good’, and left undefined within policy programmes. Using McConnell’s framework of success failure case study multi-level PPIP in the English health servic...